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What is real? -- Reality as a collective hunch -- A perspective for understanding self and social interaction -- Humans as symbolic creatures. Shared meaning as the basis of humanness -- Naming -- Language and social behavior -- Language, thought, and culture -- Realizing symbolic order through interaction. Meaning is negotiated through interaction -- Naming as an interactional process -- Projecting the definition of the situation -- Negotiating a working consensus -- The self as a product of interaction -- The social construction of reality. Building and breaching reality -- A theory of reality -- Self-fulfilling prophecies -- The social construction of the cultural status quo -- Ambiguity, complexity, and conflict. Boundaries and contradictions -- Contradictions and conflict in self-production -- Conflict and change in cultural production

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